Sheema Kermani : "I will keep dancing no matter what. Who has the right to tell me not to dance?”
Description
In this episode, Shana is in conversation with Sheema Kermani. You may know Sheema as the dancer in the hit Coke Studios video of Pasoori but, for Sheema, dance is more than an artform. For her, it is also an act of defiance. A classically trained Bharatnatyam dancer, Sheema took on the Pakistani military dictator Zia-ul-Haq when he abolished public dancing. Since then, Sheema has steadfastly defended the rights of minorities and women. In this interview, Sheema talks about her activism, the early days of Aurat March and how she came to perform the feminist anthem “A Rapist in Your Path” in Urdu - a performance that connected Pakistan to the Fourth Wave of Feminism, which has ebbed and flowed around the globe.
Follow Sheema Kermani on Instagram @sheemakermani and Twitter @tehrikeniswan
CREDITS:
Host and Creative Director: Shana
This is a Maed in India production
Head of Production: Mae Mariyam Thomas
Project Manager: Shaun Fanthome
Producer : Nikkethana Kamal, Sonali Gupta
Sound Editor & Mix Engineer: Kartik Kulkarni
Visual Design & Social Media: Minal Jadeja, Akshat Agarwal, Shaumik Kanvinde
![Mariam Shafqat Goraya : “And my protest is obviously against misogyny. But [then] my personal anger is also about women who uphold these roles.”](https://s3.castbox.fm/41/0c/47/16b2488e4f87dfc7c231245dde14614168_scaled_v1_400.jpg "Mariam Shafqat Goraya : “And my protest is obviously against misogyny. But [then] my personal anger is also about women who uphold these roles.”")
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